I wrote a little about him here
Love it. Thanks brother.
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Same
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My youth sports career was always hampered by feets that my abnormally sized middle leg would get in the way. It was especially a worry for my hockey coaches.
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thanks for posting! what’s crazy is I haven’t even thought about the draft this year. Normally I’ll run several hundred (no exaggeration) sins and research all the prospects.
This year I was surprised the other day when the draft was next week. And I no nothing about any prospect. Shame
Or maybe because we’re good now? Anyone else lose the draft bug?
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We are good and really there isn’t much room for additional starters, I would say 2 and they need to be very good. So basically we are drafting depth in hope of them becoming future starters. Urgency has given way to patience, and trusting a proven staff to choose wisely.
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Just saw a Mock from a big time NFL draft site lions at 28 Take WR Emeka Egbuka I could see them doing something like this. The draft has good players but after about pick 15 they are just that good not rated higher but many just Good. Its a pick to think about with 5 year value could it result in a trade earlier? Have know idea but Holmes does things unexpected. I would guess he would like to trade down an still take him.
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Slight trade up in round 2 with Hooker as the bait.
Brady Cook or K Rourke as an UDFA
If it went down like this it would be great, but I do like some guys we passed on in the 7th at #228.
Hollin Pierce OT Rutgers
Clay Webb, OL, Jacksonville State
And this guy I really like…Nick Nash, WR, San Jose State
He would be a perfect fit here.
I could 100% see something like this… Brad has found a diamond in the rough or two each year… C Harris, J Reynolds, Glasgow, Anzalone, Comish, Raymond, Elliott, etc…
Each are plenty of snaps, and each well outperformed their 1-2.5M AAV one year deals.
Then each got a second contract here and outside of AA and Raymond, it’s hard to say we really got our monies worth on any of them the 2nd time around.
I love what we got from Timmy P last year, but his age, upside and injury history make gambling on him for 700 plus snaps a huge gamble. We are already doing that with Davenport/Paschal as our DE2…
I am not sure our FO is going to invest in a multi year Jamo extension, and I expect Jamo and his camp to want one.
I’m not advocating we take Embuka, Burden, Higgins etc early, but I surely wouldn’t hate or dismiss it.
I believe we sign Kerby and Hutch so imo the weakest and or most uncertain positions on the roster are……
—-Davenport/Paschal as DE 2 and 3…
—-Glasgow/Mahogany as OG 1 and 2…
—- Reader and Levi as DT 2 and 3 (with Alim out much of 25’ season already)
—- Jamo, Patrick, Raymond as WR2/3/4 with Jamo extension not certain and both others single year deals over 30 years of age
—- Anzalone in his final year over 30 at WLB
We are not going to be able to solve all 5 with multi year solutions, but if Brad goes “Full Villain” and gets us 3 again? LFG!!!
Embuka
W Milum
Savion Jones
V Boughton
Or
G Zabel
J Stewart
T Horton
V Broughton
Or
M Williams
J Savaiinaea
Horton
V Broughton
Bottom line there are only so many guys around round 1 that I think could be plus plus starters
Seeing Embuka as a 900-1,100 yards 7-8 TD wr in 4 of the next 5 years wouldn’t shock me at all.
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I like a few of those too!
I do think That’s2 is on to something with Cabledue… 80 plus rating, 9 plus RAS, and more snaps logged than Donovan Jackson the past 3 years. I could see Brad hedging bets on long term OL solutions. Milum and Cabledue both have tackle experience and project as OGs. Add in Manu and Mahogany and suddenly we have a bevy of cheap young OL talent with plus athletic traits.
Que Robinson and Collin Oliver is a cheap double up in rounds 4 and 7 to get more 240 pound “movers” on the squad. I feel like one pops for sure and pairs with Barnes as rush LBs that can get us some 3rd down pressure. I don’t see all these picks making the team- but guys with plus traits where we need help on 2024 could be ideal.
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Goff/Allen/Rourke- top level starter, experienced backup, upside project QB
Gibby/Monty/Netflix/Vaki- I think we possibly snag an UDFA RB in this deep class to compete with Netflix?
Ra/Jamo/Patrick/Horton/Raymond/Bell- absolutely love the depth, diversity of skills, and contract lengths
Decker/Manu
C Mahogany/Cabledue
Ragnow/Glasgow
Savaiinaea/Glasgow
Decker/Manu
Laporta/Wright/Yeboah
What’s not to love about this?
Hutch/Muhammad
Reader/Grant/Lopez
Levi/Broughton/McNeill
Davenport/Broughton Paschal
Barnes/Que/Oliver
Campbell/Rodrigo
Anzalone/Stuard
Arnold/Rake
Reed/Dorsey
Robertson/Maddox
Kerby
Branch
Maybe we add a guy like Kendall Fuller to shore up the CB room?
Adding Z and Fuller would really, really make this roster pretty imposing.
Cableguy & Dylan Fairchild & Joshua Gray
If we can’t get Donovan Jackson in a trade down or Wyatt Milum in round 2/3.
I like adding these as later day 3 adds to develop and compete.
This is the route Brad has chosen for the OL last two drafts. Should continue.
Take Hollin Pearce instead of Horsley. Though there is a 0.00 percent chance Pearce is there that late or anywhere close to that late.
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One thing I know for sure, the staff is gonna love Egbuka. I don’t know that we’ll pick him, but we’ll love him. I would have included him in that list of guys we should be talking about, but he’s already been talked about quite a bit.
